Product Description

The world of photography is changing. Now there's a printer that offers photographers a level of quality and flexibility that's more than a match for the lab or darkroom. The Epson Stylus Photo R800 is a desktop photo printing solution that produces supre

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11131 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Epson
• Model: C11C550024CU
• Released on: 2004-01-20
• Platform: Windows 2000
• Dimensions: 18.52 pounds

Features

• Outstanding quality and durability with Epson
• UltraChrome Hi-Gloss pigment ink
• Red and Blue Inks for increased colour gamut sim
• Borderless printing at popular photo print sizes
• Outstanding photos reprints and enlargements fro

Manufacturer's Description
The world of photography is changing. Now there's a printer that offers photographers a level of quality and flexibility that's more than a match for the lab or darkroom. The Epson Stylus Photo R800 is a desktop photo printing solution that produces supreme archival quality matte or gloss prints, while you retain all the creative control that makes your vision unique.

When it comes to bringing unique ideas to life, photographers have extremely high standards. Traditionally, these have only been met by photo labs or complex darkroom processing. Now it's time to step out of the darkroom and put your trust in Epson, the recognised photo printing experts.

Quality, flexibility and efficiency are built in. The eight-cartridge system includes Red and Blue inks which create a colour gamut rivalling that of silver halide and adds depth to natural colours such as sky, sea, sunsets and autumn leaves. At the same time, the latest Epson UltraChrome Hi-Gloss" pigment inks recreate perfect tones that will be lightfast for up to 80 years.

Photos and reprints look superb, even when enlarged up to borderless A4 size, because this printer can achieve an amazing resolution of up to 5760 optimised dpi on suitable media. At the same time, the finest detail is achieved and fast print speeds maintained by using a range of dot sizes, including a minute droplet of just 1.5 picolitres.

Epson's dedication to satisfying photo experts is underlined by the development of Epson Gloss Optimizer technology. This is a fine tuning tool designed for optimising highly durable gloss pigment ink prints. The photographic result is a smooth and even gloss finish, comparable to silver halide, but with a longer lifetime.

Also, the finest results are achieved on both Matte or Gloss media, because the printer features two different blacks that optimise performance for each, automatically applied by the driver when you select paper type. Of course, the ability to replace each individual cartridge also maximises cost efficiency.

The digital format has revolutionised photography, but the thrill of watching your photos emerge from your printer is just as rewarding as it was in your darkroom. However, now you can experience the same emotions, but in the daylight.

Once connected to your computer you can perfect your images using on-screen photo editing software including Epson PhotoQuicker, an easy print layout tool. The digital format also lets you store your photos safely on your computer and print as many copies as you like, when you like, in a huge variety of formats.

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Customer Reviews

very poor customer service
I cannot recommend the R800. Initially the results were very impressive,as many other reviewers have said.I bought mine Mar-07 and the early photos were as you would expect from a pricey, eight-cartridge machine,but soon I was having to clear the print-head at great cost,frequency and inconvience;merrily printing away when stripes started to appear on the pictures;interrupt printing,waste paper in the proccess.It takes a lot of expensive Epson ink to flush through the heads.By December-07 things were so bad that the R800 was not worth using.Their on-line technical help could offer nothing more than to clean the heads up to six times!(And to use only Epson inks and papers, which I had been doing.)You can see the ink tanks emptying before your very eyes as you do this many cleans! Still no improvement in image quality,and nothing like the quality at the begining.I even sent them an A4 pic which seemed that our four-month-old grandson was hiding behind behind a Venitian blind,the stripes were so bad! I tried to let Epson UKs MD (Mr Butler)know how bad things were,but when I phoned their office I was told it's their policy not to give customers his e-mail address,which provides a clue.I wrote to him anyway, and got a reply from the sales office.The upshot is that unless I can produce my receipt,which I couldn't find,their 'terms and conditions' and 'warranty' applied, even though I had provided the serial number, registered it with them when I bought it and said where and when I had bought it,all to no avail,nothing would be done to rectify the problem. I thought there might be some sympathy forthcoming from them as when the poor quality printing appeared the R800 was about six months' old. As I informed Epson,it would have been nice if they'd used phrases like 'as a gesture of good faith' and 'without prejudice'in these circumstances,but No. Anyway,I've since bought another printer,an HP D7160 which is about a third the R800s price and twice as good. I have no affiliation with either Epson or HP. I'm just a disappointed, disillusioned and disgruntled ex-Epson-printer-owner. Personally, based upon their indifference and poor attitude,and the R800s overall less-than-satisfactory performance and high running costs,I will never again touch any Epson product or service with a barge pole...........Caveat emptor!

Top Printer
This is a very competant printer, especially for the photographer. It prints to an high level of detail and handles black and white printing with subtlety. It is quiet and well built. installed easily on my usb1 port allthough would be better on usb2. 8 cartridges give amazing range to the pallette. Provided you feed it with decent quality photo paper you will not be dissapointed with it.It has the option to put a gloss finish onto your printed output..Good build quality too. Epson have come a long way with ink jet technology it seems to me i am delighted with my r800.

A REAL photo printer
I got this after my Canon i850 was KIA. I really liked the Canon and considered a direct replacement (i865) but was lured in by the Epson reviews. I was not disappointed. The photo quality on the supplied Epson paper is nothing short of astounding. I would challenge anyone to be able to spot the difference between these and traditional photographs.

I always found the Canon suffered from a slight blue cast and was poor at handling very dark areas. Comparing the same photos, side-by-side leaves the Canon way behind. No more grainy dark colours, no more banding in the darker areas, no more overly blue blues.

The printer also prints great quality text also and at decent speed. I would definitely recommend it. Go on, you know you want one.